Ella Baker has really introduced me to the danger in egos. She really got it. I can’t unsee it now. I can’t unsee or unlearn the ways we put our egos on the forefront before our causes, movements, and even our people. She led and organized and taught in such a sustainable, selfless, intentional way…and we, I, need to revisit her for lessons and direction for my future.
Ms. Baker is magic revolutionarily embodied, deadass.
People think of children as either sweet and innocent or too stupid to cause much trouble and both views are wrong. A child of elementary school age has the moral reasoning and impulse control of a racoon paired with problem solving equal to or superior to an adult’s, yet unbound by the shackles of cautionary experience or awareness of long-term consequence.
This is what allows the children to both create a black market in live bioweapons while still only valuing said weapons at 25 cents.
